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  <li><a class="fontBoldish" href="https://places-coco2017.github.io/#winners" target="_blank">2017 Challenge Winners</a> for <a href="#detection-2017">Detection</a>, <a href="#keypoints-2017">Keypoint</a>, &amp; <a  href="#stuff-2017">Stuff</a> tasks have been announced! <br/>Please visit the <a href="https://places-coco2017.github.io/" target="_blank">Joint COCO and Places Recognition</a> ICCV workshop page for details.<br/></li>
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  <li>We are pleased to announce the COCO 2018 <a class="fontBoldish" href="#detection-2018">Detection</a> and <a class="fontBoldish" href="#keypoints-2018">Keypoint</a> Challenges.<br/></li>
  <li>This year we will also be hosting a new COCO <a class="fontBoldish" href="#panoptic-2018">Panoptic Segmentation</a> Challenge!</br></li>
  <li>Results to be announced at the <a class="fontBoldish" href="workshop/coco-mapillary-eccv-2018.html">Joint COCO and Mapillary Recognition</a> ECCV workshop.</li>
  <li>This website is now hosted on <a href="https://github.com/cocodataset/cocodataset.github.io" target="_blank">Github</a>, which provides page source and history.</li>
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  <h1>What is COCO?</h1>
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  <p class="fontSubtle">COCO is a large-scale object detection, segmentation, and captioning dataset. COCO has several features:</p>
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    <li class="checkBullet">Object segmentation</li>
    <li class="checkBullet">Recognition in context</li>
    <li class="checkBullet">Superpixel stuff segmentation</li>
    <li class="checkBullet">330K images (&gt;200K labeled)</li>
    <li class="checkBullet">1.5 million object instances</li>
    <li class="checkBullet">80 object categories</li>
    <li class="checkBullet">91 stuff categories</li>
    <li class="checkBullet">5 captions per image</li>
    <li class="checkBullet">250,000 people with keypoints</li>
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  <h1>Collaborators</h1>
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  <h1>Sponsors</h1>
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  <p><img class="wide" src="images/sponsors-microsoft.png"></p>
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<p><a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1405.0312" target="_blank"><img class="wide" src="images/coco-paper.png"/></a></p>
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